B.

A follower and student of a mentor, teacher, or other wise figure. This furthers the symbolism of Jim Casy as a Jesus-figure by giving him disciples like Christ.
 * [[image:tom-joad.jpg align="right"]]What is a disciple?**

//Tom Joad: "That Casey. He might have been a preacher but he seen things clear. He was like a lantern. He helped// //me to see things clear."//
 * How do we see Tom Joad become more like Casy along the journey? **

Throughout the novel, Tom becomes more like Casy in the way that he starts to think about the good of other people instead of worrying about his own personal needs. In the beginning, Tom has just been released from prison and is only concerned with the welfare of himself and his family and has a personal motto to live in the present. On the road to California, Casy "converts" him into thinking about the future and the need of many people to perform great actions, not the work of one man. Once in California, the two reunite at the cotton plantation and Tom begins a life of action to fight against the country's injustice. He does this by joining organized labor, which at that time was looked down upon by local government, police, and big businesses/plantations. However one distinct difference between the two is Tom's use of violence in the novel. He attacks a deputy and ultimately kills Casy's atttacker, which forces him to leave his family.

// "...maybe I can do something, just find out somethin', just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong and see if they ain't somethin' that can be done about it." //

//"Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then..."//

// **Tom Joad**: "I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin'. And I been wonderin' if all our folks got together and yelled... Ma Joad: Oh, Tommy, they'd drag you out and cut you down just like they done to Casy. Tom Joad : They'd drag me anyways. Sooner or later they'd get me for one thing if not for another. Until then... Ma Joad: Tommy, you're not aimin' to kill nobody. Tom Joad: No, Ma, not that. That ain't it. It's just, well as long as I'm an outlaw anyways... maybe I can do somethin'... maybe I can just find out somethin', just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong and see if they ain't somethin' that can be done about it. I ain't thought it out all clear, Ma. I can't. I don't know enough. Ma Joad: How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know? Tom Joad: Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then... Ma Joad: Then what, Tom? Tom Joad: Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. Ma Joad: I don't understand it, Tom. Tom Joad: Me, neither, Ma, but - just somethin' I been thinkin' about. " //
 * How do his last words to Ma show the full achievement of his carrying on where Casy left off?**

Toms last words to Ma not only shows but also tells you a lot about the kind of person that he is. Even though he is a good man, there is no excuse for what he did. These last words that he and his mother share shows the achievement of his carrying on where Casy left off in various ways. Casy was a man who sacrificed himself, and was looked upon many. Even though Toms actions were not necessarily heroic or holy in any way, he believed he took the right measures. He knew what he did was wrong, but also believed it was necessary. Unfortunately, there was no turning back and now there were consequences to be faced.